If you can find them, just at the right time.
I don't think I have ever even seen them in truck stops.
Attaching placards in the rain?
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Steel Dragon, Dec 4, 2017.
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Sometimes if we are pulling a few loads as a team, one of us will hold a garbage sack over the area to try and keep it relatively dry while the other does the squeegee and towel work.
The most secure solution is flip board placards. I have those for my truck, but only for a single UN number.pattyj Thanks this. -
I've used that black gorilla tape (supposed to be a little better than duct tape, don't know if it is) around the borders and no one has said anything to me. As long as you are only attaching to the borders you aren't obscuring any more than a standard metal placard holder does.
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Get a couple pieces of metal same size as placcards. Stick on placcards at home, carry in truck. Attach them on the sides of the landing gear with zip ties or a bracket. The rear one put on a metal piece with a bracket that will be between the doors when closed. For the front of the trailer make bracket to bolt on to the assembly that holds the light cord receptical. Think outside the box, be creative. We used to haul matches and always had problems with stick on placcards in the winter, so our shop made some aluminum small sheets put the stick on placcards on them, then made holes so the placcard would go over the placcard assembly on the trailer, held on by flipping the clips over it. Solved our problem.
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I put placardson in the rain once. Only once.
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Frack sites can be filthy. As a drive away driver you show up in a chase van, go find your truck, pretrip the #### out of it (unbelievable what you find), THEN put your own company decals and DOT stickers over theirs (since you are driving under your own company authority, not theirs).
Did I mention frack sites are messy? When it's windy, fracking fluid blows over EVERYTHING. I bring a bottle of degreaser in my "Go Bag". Decal stickers won't stick to fracking fluid. Degreaser on the windshield and mirrors is needed. It's not uncommon to go through a whole bottle of degreaser and a roll of shop towels to prep a truck to move.
Then do all that in the rain. It's a special place in Hades. But it pays well.
Then repeat that another two times before ending your shift.
I have found that simply pressing on a decal on a moist surface and HOLDING there for about a minute seems to work. It's harder if the degreaser hasn't fully dried in a rainstorm.J Man Thanks this. -
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Placards holder from eastern Placards
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